The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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There is an urgent need and powerful opportunity to further boost the outreach, efficiency, and efficacy of digital humanitarian payments through enhanced coordination between UN agencies.
This report presents a powerful new demonstration of how digital payments can transform millions of lives for the better.
The report identifies eight good practices for engaging with clients who are sending or receiving digital payments and who have previously been financially excluded or underserved.
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
There is growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash (digital or physical) – as opposed to delivery of food and materials – is often the best way to help communities bounce back from crisis.
Prioritizing women, deepening digital infrastructure, designing for users, and building trust drive usage of digital financial services
Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
The IWCA endorses UN Responsible Digital Payments as a game-changer for women at every step of the coffee supply chain.
Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments
As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.
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As McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost in emerging economies, the report outlines how Peru can continue to advance its digital finance agenda …
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Building an inclusive financial ecosystem is critical to accelerating the shift away from cash in Colombia and Latin America…
Guest post by Alicia Rendon Contro, Grupo Bimbo
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
A Q&A with Dr. Ruth Goodwin-Groen on the Better Than Cash Alliance’s Important New Role